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ATTORNEY 951mg, PN 'ln-LltHOGRlPllER, WASHINGTON. B. O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LoEENz IssINeER, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

BRACELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,361, dated March 29, 1881. Application filed January 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,LORENZ BISSINGER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracelets, of which the following is a specification. a

Thisinvention has reference to an improved construction of wire bracelets, by which a neat and elastic bracelet is obtained; and the invention consists of a bracelet made of a continuous piece of wire-netting, which is formed of intermeshing transverse spiral wires, and of transverse pillars, which are passed through the openings in the spiral wires so as to bind them off in a reliable manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a detail top view of apiece of wirenetting, showing the construction of the same. Fig. 2 is a detail end view of the bracelet, and Fig. 3 a front view of the bracelet on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. i

In the manufacture of my improved bracelets a piece or blank, A, of wire-nettingof the proper length and width to form the bracelet after bending it'into shape is made. This is accomplished by first bending a number of wire spirals upon spindles of the required thickness in such a manner that the convolutions are a certain uniform distance from each other. From these spirals pieces B, which are equal in length to the width of the blank A. are out. These spiral pieces B are connected by screwingone into the other, then passing through the center of the first spiral one or more pillars, G, of straight wire, which have been cut equal tothe width of the bracelet, as shown at a b, Fig. 1. After the first pillars have been put in a third spiral is screwed into the second spiral and one or more transverse pillars passed through the second spiral. This is continued until a wire-netting of the proper length is obtained. The blank A is then placed on a solid shaper and shaped by exposure to heat. The meeting-edges are then soldered together, as shown in Fig. 2, and the projecting ends filed off.

An elastic, elegant, and durable bracelet is thereby obtained which combines advantages heretofore not found in this class of bracelets.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An improved wire bracelet composed of interlacing wire spirals extending transversely to the bracelet, and of a transverse bindingoft' wire or wires passed centrally through each spiral, substantially as set forth.

2. A wire bracelet composed of transverse interlacing wire spirals, and of transverse binding-oft wires, the webbing thus formed being bent into hollow shape and soldered together at the meeting edges, substantially as specified.

3. The method herein described of making .Wire bracelets, consisting in interlacing spirallytwisted transverse wire strands, then binding-off two adjoining strands by a transverse wire or wires passed centrally through each spiral, next shaping the wire-netting thus obtained, and 'finally soldering it together at themecting edges, substantially as set torth.,

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of January, 1881.

LORENZ BISSINGER.

Witnesses PAUL GOEPEL, CARL KARP. 

